Korean pop culture, in numbers

The Perfect Lie

A Korean series that reached a Netflix weekly top 10 in 58 of 93 countries, holding 58 chart places across 1 week between 2026-09-13 and 2026-09-13. Its best position anywhere was number 1.

It reached 58 of the 93 countries — further than 93% of the Korean series in this data. It reached number one in 4 of them — Argentina, Netherlands, Poland and Uruguay. Its widest single week was 2026-09-13, when it sat on 58 country charts at once.

The Perfect Lie on Netflix, country by country — all 58 markets

MarketPlacesBest positionFirst weekLast week
Argentina112026-09-132026-09-13
Australia182026-09-132026-09-13
Austria132026-09-132026-09-13
Bahamas162026-09-132026-09-13
Belgium122026-09-132026-09-13
Bulgaria142026-09-132026-09-13
Canada182026-09-132026-09-13
Chile162026-09-132026-09-13
Colombia1102026-09-132026-09-13
Costa Rica192026-09-132026-09-13
Croatia122026-09-132026-09-13
Cyprus162026-09-132026-09-13
Czech Republic122026-09-132026-09-13
Denmark172026-09-132026-09-13
Egypt182026-09-132026-09-13
Estonia162026-09-132026-09-13
Finland122026-09-132026-09-13
France152026-09-132026-09-13
Germany142026-09-132026-09-13
Greece142026-09-132026-09-13
Guadeloupe162026-09-132026-09-13
Hungary132026-09-132026-09-13
Iceland132026-09-132026-09-13
Ireland182026-09-132026-09-13
Israel142026-09-132026-09-13
Italy152026-09-132026-09-13
Kenya182026-09-132026-09-13
Latvia142026-09-132026-09-13
Lebanon182026-09-132026-09-13
Lithuania142026-09-132026-09-13
Luxembourg132026-09-132026-09-13
Malta142026-09-132026-09-13
Martinique162026-09-132026-09-13
Mauritius162026-09-132026-09-13
Morocco182026-09-132026-09-13
Netherlands112026-09-132026-09-13
New Caledonia162026-09-132026-09-13
New Zealand182026-09-132026-09-13
Norway162026-09-132026-09-13
Panama1102026-09-132026-09-13
Paraguay162026-09-132026-09-13
Poland112026-09-132026-09-13
Portugal142026-09-132026-09-13
Réunion162026-09-132026-09-13
Romania132026-09-132026-09-13
Serbia132026-09-132026-09-13
Slovakia122026-09-132026-09-13
Slovenia142026-09-132026-09-13
South Africa182026-09-132026-09-13
Spain142026-09-132026-09-13
Sri Lanka1102026-09-132026-09-13
Sweden152026-09-132026-09-13
Switzerland142026-09-132026-09-13
Trinidad and Tobago172026-09-132026-09-13
Turkey172026-09-132026-09-13
Ukraine132026-09-132026-09-13
Uruguay112026-09-132026-09-13
Venezuela182026-09-132026-09-13

Markets are in alphabetical order, not in order of size. A market name is a link only where that country has a page of its own; the rest are plain text rather than a link that goes nowhere.

What a place is. A place is one appearance in one country's weekly top 10. A title that sat at number 4 in Vietnam for three weeks holds three places there. Reach counts the countries a title appeared in at least once, out of 93.

Charted here is not the same as available here. A chart place does show the title was on Netflix in that country that week — that much follows. The reverse does not: a country missing from this list may still have carried the title without it reaching a top 10. We hold chart lists, not catalogue listings, and we do not guess the difference.

The Perfect Lie — hit or flop?

We will not say, and neither can the chart. Netflix's country lists record that a title held a top-ten place in a country in a week. They do not record how many people watched it, what it cost, or what anyone expected of it — and those are the three things the words hit and flop are actually about.

What we can tell you is where it sits. Of the 553 Korean titles with a page here, 46 reached more markets than The Perfect Lie and 504 reached fewer. It travelled further than the typical Korean title that charted at all, which reached 2.

That is a position, not a verdict. A title can hold a hundred chart places in small markets and a title can hold four in the largest ones; the file does not say which of those a person means by success. You have the shape — the judgement is yours.

Beside the median charting Korean title

The Perfect LieMedian Korean title that charted
Markets reached582
Weeks on a chart somewhere14
Chart places held585

The median is taken across all 978 Korean titles that reached any country top 10, most of which charted in one or two markets. This is a comparison, not a ranking — we do not publish a league of titles, and a title well above the median is a title that travelled, not a title that is better.

All at once, or one country at a time

It reached 58 markets in all. The most that held it in the same week was 58 — the week of 2026-09-13.

Every market it ever reached held it at the same time, which is what a simultaneous opening looks like in this data.

Where to walk from here

Other Korean titles on this site that share a named person or a credited company with The Perfect Lie. The reason is given beside each one, because a shared name is the only claim being made — not that the two are alike.

Put this title in context

The same weekly files, cut five other ways. Each of these answers a question this page cannot: not what happened to The Perfect Lie, but what happened around it.

The Perfect Lie cast

2 names recorded as Korean, alphabetically. Wikidata cast lists are incomplete and skew toward better-known names, so this is not a full cast list and a short one does not mean a small production.

Seo Hyun-jin · Yoo Yeon-seok

2 of these 2 names have pages of their own here, showing every other charting title they appear in and how far each one travelled. The rest do not, because we hold fewer than two charting titles for them.

Where these numbers come from, and what they cannot answer

Every Korean title that has charted · Looking for one particular week? · How far a company's catalogue travels · How we count